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in the following example I am trying to replace all instances of the newname variable with -, however newname in my example is handled as text, rather than a as variable.

var newname = 'test';

var lastname = $(this).attr('name').replace(/newname/g, "-");

Can anyone help out?

in the following example I am trying to replace all instances of the newname variable with -, however newname in my example is handled as text, rather than a as variable.

var newname = 'test';

var lastname = $(this).attr('name').replace(/newname/g, "-");

Can anyone help out?

• javascript
• jquery
• regex

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var newname = 'test';
var regex = new RegExp(newname,"g")
var lastname = $(this).attr('name').replace(regex, "-");

More info:

http://smyck/2006/08/11/javascript-dynamic-regular-expresions/ http://fyneworks.blogspot./2007/04/dynamic-regular-expressions-in.html

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